Air quality assessment in a highly industrialized area of Mexico: Concentrations and sources of volatile organic compounds

Fuel

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3509-3520

  Vega, Elizabeth ^a   Sánchez Reyna, Gabriela ^a   Mora Perdomo, Virginia ^a   Iglesias, Gustavo Sosa ^a   Arriaga, José Luis ^a   Limón Sánchez, Teresa ^a   Escalona Segura, Sergio ^a   Gonzalez Avalos, Eugenio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETRÓLEO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Air quality; Halocarbons; Industrial areas; Mexico; VOCs

Indexed keywords

1 ,2-DICHLOROETHANES; AIR MASS; AIR QUALITY ASSESSMENT; COMBUSTION PRO-CESS; CONTROL MEASUREMENTS; ECONOMICAL BENEFITS; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; HIGH CONCENTRATION; INDUSTRIAL AREA; ME-XICO; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; METHYL BROMIDE; MODELING RESULTS; MONITORING SITES; N-BUTANE; NIGHT TIME; OIL INDUSTRIES; OIL REFINERIES; PARTICLE MATTER; POTENTIAL HAZARDS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL SITE; SOIL FUMIGATION; URBAN SITE; VOCS;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BROMINE COMPOUNDS; BUTANE; FUMIGATION; HALOCARBONS; INDUSTRY; OLEFINS; OZONE; PESTICIDES; PETROLEUM REFINERIES; PROPANE; RURAL AREAS; SULFUR; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

EID: 80053996521     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2011.03.050     Document Type: Article

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